Olympic Zil Lanes.

Hat tip: Crusader Rabbit

The team organising the London Olympics in 2012 is adopting the most aggressive anticar policy ever applied to a major event in an attempt to deliver a permanent shift in people’s travel habits.

The eight million spectators will be banned from travelling by car and forced to take public transport, walk or cycle. Only a small number of disabled people will be allowed to park anywhere near the car exclusion zones planned for the main venues in London, Birmingham, Manchester, Newcastle, Glasgow, Cardiff, and Weymouth and Portland in Dorset.

The Times has been given an exclusive preview of the transport plan, which describes organising the Games as the “country’s largest peacetime logistical operation”. On the busiest days, 800,000 people will converge on the venues.

The plan discloses that the Olympic Delivery Authority wants to make the Games a testing ground for a radical shift in transport planning to be extended to all major cultural and sporting events. It is even trying to deter spectators from using cars for part of their journey and has cancelled plans in the original bid for two giant park-and-ride sites on the M25 and M11.

These routes, dubbed “Zil lanes” after the routes reserved for the Soviet Politburo cavalcades in Moscow, are likely to be policed by dozens of cameras and a team of enforcement officers.source:
**Well more needs to be said? The New Labour elite will travel in cars to the venues, no doubt in cars laid on for them. Then having arrived be wined and dined and get the best seats, whilst the plebs have to drag their children along with all baggage and prams etc onto trains and buses.

The joys of the new socialist order are plain for all to see.
Tags: Cool Britannia, New Labour, Olympics

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